the Norse Encampment

Living History for the Viking Age

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The 'Norse Encampment' is the collective name given
to a series of living history programs, starting in the early 1990's, which
illustrate daily life in the Viking Age. Historic interpreters, employing replica
objects, bring the past to life through typical activities of the Norse. These
interpreters speak as voices from the past, portraying historic styled characters.
Throughout the series exceptional care was taken to ensure everything involved
in a presentation was reflective of current archaeological research. One cornerstone
of all the presentations was reference to the Vinland voyages by the Norse,
circa 1000 AD.

The collected information within the Norse Encampment documentation
has been grouped into a number of topic sections (as seen to the right).
Individual articles may be included in more than one section. Your location
in the series is indicated by a pale blue outline for the topic section.

Visitors to this series may find some disruption to some of the content
until full revisions to this series are completed!

This ongoing blog collection contains many shorter 'articles in
progress' discussing aspects of both iron smelting and metalworking
from the Viking Age, as well as topics of interest to historic
re-enactors in general. A separate
index is also available (updated quarterly).